If he succeeded and he became wealthy, he was returning to England just for a sight of you.

He was so changed, he said, that no one in the world would recognise him.

Poor fellow! It was the last line I had from him." "And you are sure," Ernestine said slowly, "that Scarlett Trent was his partner ?" "Absolutely.

Trent's own story clinches the matter.

The prospectus of the mine quotes the concession as having been granted to him by the King of Bekwando in the same month as your father wrote to me." "And what news," she asked, "have you had since ?" "Only this letter--I will read it to you--from one of the missionaries of the Basle Society.